What steps have you taken to Make Them Pay Attention? The twenty-eight percenters, the media bloviators, and the folks who represent us in Washington — how do we reach them? How do we move the body politic? Are there novel ways to reach people — things we can do every day or any day?
Now that the President admits authorizing torture — in addition to his admitted felonies about eavesdropping on Americans and his warmongering regardless of the opinion of the vast majority of Americans — how do we change the narrative this summer? How do we make Bush relevant again?
Scarlet P, The Freeway Blogger, has his own extraordinary method — one he wishes you’d make ordinary in your own community. He reaches hundreds of thousands of people (maybe a million!) every time he freeway-blogs. He shows you how here. Even better, Scarlet P will join us tonight in the comments to talk about freeway-blogging — or turnpike- or interstate- or parkway- blogging for you East Coasters. It can be done.
Sometimes it takes more words to make the point, and one needs to write a swell resignation letter, as John Brady Kiessling did in 2003 when he left the State Department as this evil war was getting underway:
We are straining beyond its limits an international system we built with such toil and treasure, a web of laws, treaties, organizations, and shared values that sets limits on our foes far more effectively than it ever constrained America’s ability to defend its interests.
I am resigning because I have tried and failed to reconcile my conscience with my ability to represent the current U.S. Administration. I have confidence that our democratic process is ultimately self-correcting, and hope that in a small way I can contribute from outside to shaping policies that better serve the security and prosperity of the American people and the world we share.
Those of us who aren’t in a position from which we can so eloquently resign must make do with smaller measures, but these can be effective nonetheless.
On visits back east to see my mom, I have spent a couple of worthwhile afternoons at suburban DeeCee malls. As I stroll through bookstores, I turn all the wingnut welfare tomes face-in. It’s not got the adrenaline rush of freeway blogging, but arranging a bookstore’s shelves so no O’Reilly or Coulter or Goldberg peeks out can be a fun way to spend an afternoon. It changes the world of reading for the next browsers, and I’ve noticed that my rearranged bookscape can last for several days. Other guerrillas, outraged by the display space given to liars, haters, and idiot philosopers, make direct and frequent protests to store managers: Why are you prominently displaying this trash?
My next small project (I start this week) is business cards with "Impeach Bush & Cheney Now! Call 202-225-4965" (I’m sure by now you recognize the Speaker’s office number.) I’ll put these on windshields and on community bulletin boards; just a fifty-dollar investment for a thousand cards. If only ten percent of those who get a card make a call, I will have generated one hundred more calls to Nancy Pelosi’s office. Leave some at the community area of the public library, with the pilates and tax prep flyers, and put one in every eatery’s fishbowl promising a free lunch if your card is drawn. Leave one on the folding table at the launderette, and a couple on the deposit-writing tables at the credit union. Slip a few between CDs at the record store, or between boxes of pasta at the supermarket. Ask your favorite vendors at the farmers’ market if you can put a few on the corner of their tables. Word gets around, and people start to talk. Split the cost among five friends; each of you can quickly distribute 200 cards.
Soon you’ll have a mini-movement in your community — "have you seen these?" people will ask one another. "Yes, I have — and I called!"
Engage more of our own folks in the dialogue — if the major papers and cable gasbags won’t talk about what our leaders have done to our country, then we must do it ourselves.
Many fraternal and membership organizations in San Francisco have made their own statement on The War Regime, as has our Board of Supervisors. Have you asked your lodge or homeowners’ association to take a stand? What about your condo board? Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that our uniquely American quality is our tendency to band together, to organize ourselves for the betterment of our communities. Has your local elected body made its views known, as Brattleboro did? George W Bush hasn’t set foot in Vermont or San Francisco during his awful reign, probably for very good reason.
Let’s knit together a patchwork of shun that reaches from coast to coast!
Shall we organize a black-armband day on the tragic fifth anniversary of Mission Accomplished? It’s May First — coming up fast.
We are the change we’re waiting for. Have you a plan?
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Teddy!
hiya Barbara!
Just moseyed by to see what’s going on at FDL and stumbled into zedness.
Hey Teddy, those are some great ideas — I especially love the business cards. Hmmmmm!
And three cheers for Scarlet P. and his awesome freeway blogging!
Love your business card idea! Fabulous!
Hello Everybody… here to take your questions.
hey teddy – welcome scarlet p the freeway blogger
scarlet dropped by the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods a while back and we spent a lovely afternoon making signs. it really was easy and if someone who almost flunked art in 6th grade can do it, anyone can.
I admire and respect the Freeway Blogger and invite him to NYC where I will work with him!
Great contribution!
Hi L-Lib — long time no see!
I have been known to do this.
Hey Teddy and Scarlet P!
Scarlet, hello!
So tell us about your interactions with the po-po, not counting when you showed a retired one how to make the raw material for freeway blogging!
(hi Suz!)
Haven’t been to NYC yet, at least in a freewayblogging capacity, but I bet you get some Awesome traffic…
Hi Scarlet P. — thank you so much for what you do.
Mary, big box bookstores seem woefully understaffed. Have you ever gone back and checked your “work?” Mine, I’ve found, can last several days. Lord knows how much Regnery crap goes unsold!
One of the (many) beauties of the art is that I pick the time and place, so there’s very little interaction with police. I think maybe eight times in over five thousand postings. when i do meet them though I’m always polite and do everything they say. if all they can pin on me is political signposting on public property – in America – they know it ain’t gonna fly in court.
Teddy!
*tips hat to* ScarletP!
Methinks I have a project for my next set of days off…several big box bookstores within easy reach of here *g*
key to this is scarlets style. there is no damage, no defacement, nothing that the cops can hang on him as being a crime.
I know all the congested high locations!
We have chain links and fences over at the over passes.
Helium balloons with banners? Launched at the GWB?
Mayday, mayday, mayday.
May 1 is a perfect day to sound the alarm for a country in the hands of (choose one): idiots, mercenaries, neocons, fascists, scofflaws, criminals, repeat offenders, a self-appointed monarchy, megalomaniacs, warmongers . . .
Dugg!
Hi Teddy. Good evening dear friends!
hola newt!
Hello, Betsy, how are you this evening?
I saw a sign on an overpass a couple of weeks back thaat just said ‘4000′. I didn’t have any trouble understanding it, but I bet there were a lot who did.
WooHoo Teddy! Great post and even better actions!
Somtimes I bury them with other titles…
I am doing well. Pix from my birthday dinner.
How are you Teddy?
Woo hoo! News of Jane’s complaints agains McCain for violating campaign finance law made the Minneapolis local news! Congratulations Jane! I love the judo way this effort has caught McCain in the Bush Administration’s own FCC-neutering trap!
hi teddy–this is epu’d from siun’s thread, applies here, wanted everyone to see it-from reverend mike kinman, friend of mohammed.
his comment at the end of the thread–
Sorry … having to jump on and off tonight.
I think one of the biggest problems we have as Americans is that we have this illusion that we are powerless. It’s easy to see where it comes from since there are so many who have extreme power in this country who use their power badly — and part of that use is to convince us that we can’t (and/or shouldn’t) do anything about it.
But the truth is the group of people on this chat tonight … statistically speaking … are most probably in the top 5% of powerful people in the world, when you look at our income, education and access to systems of power (starting — for those of us in the U.S. and other democracies — with the vote).
So if we buy the lie that we are powerless then the world really is screwed. Because if we won’t do anything about it, then who will?
Good for him. This is the very first I’ve heard of it.
I say we take the case to the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. Hell, we might not even have to provide any evidence, since we have a confession from You Know Who (I know, I know, fear of the name only increases fear of the thing itself–but I swear I can’t even stand to hear the name any more without screaming).
Thank you, neuro! How be you?
Nite all,
STRUGGLE!
Aaagh. Missed it. Where? Print or teevee?
Hey Sander — Scarlet uses the bungee cords to mount the signs on the sidewalk side of the overpass fencing — the letters are large enough to read through the cyclone fence grid. If you check out the link in my post, you’ll see what I mean.
It’s all done on the safe side, and read by drivers through the fence.
Good, Teddy. And you?
At the 2000 soldier mark I had a campaign of putting up “2K Why?” signs. sometimes cryptic is good because it makes people have to think for a bit before they get it. During that time the sign has slipped irretreivably into the distance.
Most excellent post, TSF. All hail the Scarlet P.
Hi Siun and dmac — these are the “feeling powerless” actions I try to take when another call or FAX seems beyond me. We are powerful, but sometimes I need to adjust my angle of approach in order for my actions to feel meaningful.
Too many off-topic reply emails from DiFi has that effect on a citizen, I guess…
Scarlet, a few months back there was an “Impeach” sign similar to yours that was hung from a bridge here in Northern VA…it stayed up for just a few days before being removed. And yet a Ron Paul banner stayed up on another bridge for weeks. I guess I don’t have a real point here, except that it’s probably rather telling about the voter demographics around here (even though it’s turning more purple-ish than red).
Thinking is good. And an excellent habit to encourage in our Idol-addled citizenry.
suzanne at 19
and he’s witty.
my favorite one that he has done–
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..erday.html
hi RBG
Apparently, Loo Hoo, it was printed in the New York Times, but overwhelmed by the march to war. Isn’t it a great letter?
If President Bush and his failed policies (has he succeed at anything) are at 28% then why does the Main Stream Media always have more Conservative GOP Commenters than Liberal ones, let any true Lefties.
Perhaps because the Media is angling coverage Bush’s way. Not that the biased coverage is working. If anything mainstream media stocks from Newscorp, TimeWarner, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Wallstreet Journal have all been either flat for the last few years or in the case of the Chicago Tribune and Wallstreet Journal they have been taken private or bought out.
“If it bleeds it leads ” does sell papers unless you report the Bushie’s happy talk then its your balance sheet that bleeds.
happy birthday tex – we will party in late late nite :)
A few days is pretty good for an overpass. if it was a cardboard/paint effort it only took the guy about a nickel’s worth of material and five to ten minutes to make it, so that’s a lot of bang for the buck.
the ron paulistas are prolific freewaybloggers… they’re all over here too.
thanks suz. hope i last that long!
scarlet P
we worship thee
we worship thee
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IMPEACH!
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More words worth repeating, from RonD downstairs:
Thank you Teddy. I love the biz card idea.
If somehow the corporate media and the rethugs slip up and a dem gets in the whitehouse, you can bet there’ll be a huge scandal within weeks of the inauguration based on missing oval office supplies: paperclip-gate.
Where did you get your overhead projector, Scarlet? I used to have several, but no more. Not sure where to find one, even if I had the room to set up like you do.
mimic me.
mimic me.
what makes the best sign?
Hi Laura! It’s amazing to see the US government attribute the end of the Cold War to other than St Ronnie’s indefatigable will. There must be some pretty sneaky Navy folks on that watch.
sorry, that should have been ….
what makes a good sign?
hi teddy! I get to blogwhore my own comment thread here… behold the awesome power of the overhead projector:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..ector.html
there’s a link to the e-bay thread for the puppies in there – running about forty bucks, but once you’ve got one it’s like having a printing press for billboards…
Hi Suzanne! the soul of signmaking, like wit, is brevity. “Impeach” sure said a lot about how I’ve felt in just seven characters. “The War is a Lie.” while not incredibly witty, is to the point and it sure looks damn good next to a freeway…
Of course you get to blogwhore, it’s what having a guest commenter is all about!
the ebay link shows one as low as $15.99 scarlet.
Good night all. Teddy, thank you for the great ideas you laid out in your post. And Scarlet, thank you too — keep on keepin’ on!
true dat :)
Go For It. You really don’t need much room – just ten or fifteen feet between projector and canvass – to get letters two or three feet tall. Projectors beat stencils ‘cuz you can say anything, any font, style, etc.
If peace groups start getting OPs and using them, you wouldn’t be able to recognize this country…
night LL
g’nite ll
A little nightcap reading from one Dick Cavett at the NYT online:
They Seek Him Here, They Seek Him There, Those Bushies Seek Him Everywhere !
Greetings Teddy, Freewayblogger, and Firedogs -
Teddy, you know I loves those bus cards – still hand them out in grocery store lines, gas stations, but I’ve changed it up a little -
these days for some reason folks are most shocked to learn Chimpigula has borrowed the $$$ for his occupation – so I’ve ginned up my standard contact your congresscritter card to look like an American Express Card (have it at a friend’s place as she has super groovy color printing )
but where is he getting the money they all ask ? so it’s a ‘Your-Chinese Express Card’ – Member Since 2003 – Exp: U Must Be Kidding ! $3Trillion and Counting !!!
ps – I still write on money (remember I hand out change to about 25% of my guests) currently: 15 cents of this went to Bush’s Murderous Occupation in Iraq ! oh yeah – custom rubber stamps are still pretty cheap
Great post, Teddy. And Scarlet P – you are an inspiration – good on ‘ya!
hey doc
Scarlet, is it your signs I see here in LA or someone else’s?
Writing on money is illegal. I think it’s important to point that out, so that the lawyer folks don’t come down on yours truly for this post.
Hi CBL2 — I love your new biz cards, though!
Heya KJM~
evening pups
wonderful ideas…
I can take cards to the yoga studio, the dog groomer (they are all a bunch of DFH), ooohh the possibilities are endless!
freeway at 57–
i have a friend that keeps saying things like that, after i sent him my favorite piece of your work.
”make any anonymous signs lately, d?”
i live by a 4 lane–on a hill above it-but the only way to reach the fence is down a hill through dense woods…….
my thing? i write lots and lots and lots of specific letters……and phone calls.
however, i do eye the fence lines around here more than is healthy /s
and tried to post a comment on your site when you posted the one at my 45, long time ago, but couldn’t do it.
oh well.
glad you finally are here long enough to know that it was my favorite one so far.
I say we point out that 70 % of the country is to the Left of Hilary and Obama and thats why News Media stocks have sucked for all of Bush’s term.
In order to defeat someone you must not want to be him, or the bad guys win. In our case we do not want to buy media stocks both out of principle and because they are losing money.
We must disdain them and laugh at any poor sucker invested in Fox News!
Teddy, I just had a thought for a possible enhancement to your business cards…after giving the phone number, write “pass it on”
Walking up and down hills, through woods, over/under/around fences is another one of the perks of the job actually… makes me feel like a kid again. Also, the more difficult a sign is to reach, the longer it stays up. so long as you enjoy putting them up (and I do) you’ll win out against the people who more often than not don’t enjoy having to take them down.
The interest on our Debt pays to kill monks in Tibet. Our morals our immortal soul for a Trillion Dollars.
I sorta stumbled across this one. Take a friend to a place that has fairly longish lines and a “conversation” pitched to be easily overheard. I was standing in a line at a starbucks bitching to a friend about how senate repubs were obstructing everything just out of sheer spite. All of a sudden, I noticed that half the store was looking and listening to me. It works great if you don’t get embarrassed easily.
Hi there bits — I hope we can, together, generate lots more calls to Pelosi’s office. There has to be a tipping point, for her.
Perhaps it will be her primary opponent. Maybe it will be Cindy Sheehan in November.
if one is unable to climb around due to disabilities, make a sign and drive around with it in your rear view mirror. put one in your front window, out on your deck, wherever they can be seen and is accessible to you.
it does not have to be a freeway to freeway blog.
The business card idea is a very discreet and elegant one too. Here’s a download for cards to slip inside the fuel doors of gas guzzlers (so they don’t see it until fill-up time: a double-whammy at today’s prices:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..-suvs.html
(Image of Pat Tillman and “Proud to die for your shitty gas mileage.”)
Lets say Nancy Pelosi’s Washington office has 20 lines coming into her office telephone system. If 12,000 people called into that system each day voicing their concern, i.e. impeachment, farm bill, health care, etc., and each of those 12,000 people talked for just one minute we could tie her phone system up for 10 hours. It shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks of that before she’d take notice. Can you imagine what 12,000 calls a day would do where you work.
I suggest starting tomorrow, April 14th and continuing through Friday, April 18th, these days be designated, “Back on the Table Week”. Her Washington office number is 202-225-4862. Her San Francisco number is 415-556-4862. Just 12,000 calls a day.
What a wonderful idea!
short and simple and to the point:
President Bush has admitted he personally authorized torture. Impeach Now.
Define: dirty-fucking-hippie (including, but not limited to)-
1: uncompromising Progressive
2: thinks Nancy and Harry must go
3: speaks in big, loud words
4: can be found trolling freeways and throughways
eg: http://www.freewayblogger.com/
another eg: http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..-suvs.html
Thanks dude, very much.
Can also be done solo by faking the conversation into a cel phone…
Aloha, Teddy! As I wrote at the bottom of my latest post;
OT. Cassie has an AMAZING post up that links to the blog of an Iraqi girl her age blogging from Iraq. An Iraqi Teen Blog
And that’s exactly why we should do it. It is easy, costs nothing (with Vonage), and if 12,000 people can’t be found, then I suggest 4,000 of us do it 3 times a day.
Just a quick note on the business cards- you can get 250 printed up online at vistaprint.com for something like 5 bucks. They have a little logo on the back, and turnaround time takes a bit, but it’s damn cheap if you’re looking to get a ton :)
scarlet at 80–ok, i was just starting to post my full disclosure when you posted that.
i know for a fact that if i was younger and able to get around better, i would be doing it. in a minute.
no problemo.
i have muscle problems, i need a partner in crime to post the signs with me, have been scoping for one ever since i saw you post the one at 45……….my friends kid me about it. the ones i’ve told. they live on the other side of the state…….
there’s fences there, too, i say to them…….
around here, not many police, but not many ideal spots, not so many fences……only one highway/////
but it’s definitely on my ’create a way’ list..
you know, the when there’s a will there’s a way…….
i loooooooooooooove what you’re doing.
meanwhile, my way to contribute? i write and call….and donate money when i can.
oh, and scarlet—i posted this one day but you had already left,
in your book, make sure to tell how you started doing this, your background, i really liked hearing the story about it.
I print my own at home.
Wonderful for Cassie!!!
put a sign in your living room window and another in the rear window of your car. use bungie cords to affix one to your mailbox post. pass them out to like minded neighbors to display.
Hey guya late to the party and I did Digg it for Teddy!!
So I read the post and that got me thinking… seems I acquired some 2 rolls of Xerox paper 2900 feet in length each of high photo quality 12.5 inches wide. And who ever wants some can have some but only if it will be used for Democratic political aims you know IMPEACH BUSH! As most of you know I am in the bay are and would I be quite happy to share with all the firepups who want some until it is all gone!… let me know.
Betsy, it’s great to see the children building bridges.
it is absolutely amazing. i think that’s the best gift i got all day.
I’ll be calling.
Thanks for the idea and the numbers.
I’ve also thought quite a bit about posting signs and now like the idea more than ever.
This is a good posting method for those who can’t get around much:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..-easy.html
essentially, whenever you see bushes in between the freeway fence and a parking lot, go to that parking lot. park, place sign between bushes and fence. you’re done.
Very discreet, don’t have to walk more than five or six feet from your vehicle and they stay up for a long, long, time.
I’m love hearing that. I thought those two were kindred spirits.
g’evening Pups and Freewayblogger. I’ve long admired your work.
I used to be a sign painter but alas am not as spry as i used to be … so any youngsters out there want my opaque projector which is languishing in storage? Kinda like an overhead projector, but smaller but stuff can still be enlarged wonderfully.
Sometimes under an other name I go to the Google financial pages for companies like Haliburtron,KBR, or Time Warner and comment on in Hal’s case whatever Iraq war scandal regarding defective equipment or over charging the army is going to affect the stock price.
So far I’ve been wrong.
Or I mock Time Warner for biased news coverage and how flat the stock price has been.
GM and Ford people though are true believers…in their own
make believeer reality. I’m sure they all listen to Rush.I must remember to heckle the bank stocks when the new numbers come out. Corporate Welfare White Boys driving Taxpayer paid for Caddies sippin Gin and Juice! Scammin the little man the tax payer while like Bush they all proclaim themselves to be self made man forgetting just who paid for their ride.
scarletp–
here’s what a friend emailed when i mailed him your site
”thanks d—-
have you started making signs yet?
b”
funny
Hi Mod the last word in my comment at 107 should be Ride not rid can you fix it.
hard refresh and it is done
scarlet, that video rocked! it must have been fun shooting it (and i love the logo on your orange vest)
Has anyone had luck with organizations they belong to, or with their local government? Their are some wonderful resources at AfterDowningStreet.org, which is linked in my post.
Thanks Suzanne – it was done by a friend (Aboriginal Media) who has to do a lot of soul-crushing stuff for Hollywood/TV and the like. He loves filming me (’cuz driving around sticking up big ol’ signs is fun…)and managed to just throw it together last week. great choice of music.
oh yeah, the revolution starts now – steve earle has some great songs out there
suz at 99-
thanks mah dear.
mom’s neighbor, the one who wears the impeach cheney hat all over boehner territory, he has signs in his mini-van windows…..
my house is off the road, so no go there.
my car is a convertible, so little window in back, and i need it. other windows won’t work, plus they’re tinted.(and dont salivate, it’s an older car)
mailbox is on a dangerous, sharp, steep curve…..need your eyes on the road even going 10 miles an hour around it.
have thought about it, and am looking for ideas……i do have a bumper sticker that says, when you tell the truth you don’t have to remember what you said….
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and scarletp–bushes and fences, hmmmm.
a lot of our fences are off the road, steep hills
we really don’t have too many, and the overpasses don’t have anything to attach to…….i’ve looked….i really have been scoping the territory…..heh.
but, my dog keeps eyeing the fence on the road to albany by the budweiser distributor……..right next to the wesleyan church…..runs all along there…….it’s flat there, and one could just be hanging out admiring the pond that is there……not doing anything, no, just hanging out.
(problem is around here though, is everybody knows everybody, kinda hard to be anonymous, and it would take about one hour for word to get out about who posted the damn sign……..”i saw a white car and the woman was”,…. and on it would go till they figure it out.)
he refers to himself as “one of the better-paid Marxists” in the country… love it.
You must’ve read my post today, Torturer-in-Chief, Suz…! ;-)
not yet, ct… will read all my daily must reads when i get off duty later tonight.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TEXBETSY!!!
This is somwone who can blog, watch tv, and listen to the radio at the same time. I admire that!
Gotta go sleep, so please send my wishes on to her next thread if she’s gone now. HB, Tex!
Thanks Loo Hoo!
You forgot the solitaire game on the computer and 4 IM’s!
BTW, send some love to the ACLU…
But see, dmac, even if they figure out who the woman in the white car was, you really haven’t done anything wrong. It just feels wrong in a culture where free speech and expression are under constant attack.
Dang I had forgotten… Happy Birthday Textbetsy!!! May you have many more…
hippo birdies, tex!
tex’s birthday celebration is gonna be on late late nite since we have a guest tonight
Thanks y’all.
I am doing the wishes thing differently. I am asking ALL of my friends to join me in wishing for a year pain free and inclusive of pleasure. So far, the aqua volleyball crowd chimed in and another online group I am a part of. I hope y’all are game.
oops. sorry for 126. will move it to Late late
Happy BDay, Tex…! 8-)
Happy Birthday Texas Betsy!
Here’s another thing to do: A friend wrote,
Spread the news.
Bob in HI
I heard somewhere that 70% of High School Seniors couldn’t find the world on a globe.
Great idea.
There are lots of places near here I can do that.
My worry is being seen by some of our cops, but I’ll just act crazy. It isn’t much of a stretch!
scarlet, how do the pups send ya their pictures of the signs they put up. should they just leave you a message at your blog?
Just like the military, though, I think it’s important to understand that members of the police force probably closely reflect the population at large. There really can’t be any huge pockets of Bush love left in America, not with his ratings at 28%.
Getting caught by the police is just as likely to end with an assist as with a ticket for littering.
the beauty of scarlets method is there is no damage – they can not claim vandalism. what is the crime for free speech?
and, it has been my experience that acting like you are doing what you are supposed to be doing is many times enough to get away with stuff.
acting guilty while posting signs will get you spoke to by the police. acting brazen like scarlet does with his orange vest – not so likely.
teddy at 122–yeah, i was thinkin’ after i posted that, that most around here agree with it…….no big deal being found out.
but i LIKE being anonymous when i do something…….heh.
so, if most around here agree, why do it? last year i was thinking about it when i first looked at scarletp’s site ….then i realized, it’s the ONLY highway to cincinnati from se ohio…and only way to west virginia and south of there unless you go through kentucky…all traffic goes through here. out of town and local…..it’s not a lot of traffic, sometimes there aren’t hardly any cars out, but it is the only highway, so people from all over are on it going somewhere else.
been eyeing fences ever since…..only possible one so far is the one i described. and probably the church people would yank it pretty quickly.
thought about seeing how much it costs to rent an airplane message thing…maybe someone would do it for gas money and flight hours….there is a small airport here….that would be good. but the sign is probably not in my budget.
Send pix to freewayblogger@yahoo.com I post what gets sent in at the blog “Tales of the Freewayblogger”
http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com
the best one sent in so far was a banner six feet tall and fifty+ feet across reading “George W. Bush is a Lying Sack of Shit.” in Chicago. Didn’t stay up long, but made a beautiful picture.
ET printed out hugh’s list.. pictures at link.
oh i forgot—
saw a few fences with messages on my way back to town last week—
done with styrofoam cups stuck in the fence!!!!
pretty cool.
hughs list had only 281 items on it and it was about 60′ when printed out in standard business type (10pt)
Before Suzanne puts up Late Late Nite and we all migrate to the new post, I want to thank you, Scarlet, for inspiring us with ideas and action. You really are a hero to many, and (I hope!) a model for more every day.
Everyone can be a Freeway Blogger!
None would dare call it littering, too many people have died for the right. Especially to do so in a court of law, in front of the flag and all… if I were hauled in on a “littering” rap I’d explain that while it may be litter, it’s litter that’s been sanctified by the very blood in the footprints of the snows of Valley Forge. Then I’d politely ask the prosecuter to drop to his or her knees in front of the flag and beg the forgiveness of the founding fathers.
chicago pic here:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..go-il.html
gorgeous.
scarlet, thanks for being here tonight and encouraging us pups to take action.
that railway bridge is calling for a sign. give me a call next time you are up this way.
plastic tablecloths! way forking kewl, scarlet
thanks scarletp!!!!!
love your wit and your work!
This is so intereting, I’m going to do a post on it at my place.
We’ve created some guerrilla signs up here in the Mat-Su Valley of Alaska, and they’ve probably helped our insurgency in its progress. I put a sign on Don Young’s car when he was at a debate, that said, “Jack’s [Abramoff] keeping a bunk real warm for ya, Don!”
But the freeway blogger is a very special person. We can all learn.
Thanks, freewayblogger. Thanks, TSF!
safe travels scarlet
I just took it.
Yea! Teddy and Scarlet P. Many thanks.
And thanks to you all very very much too. It’s incredibly easy and fun, what I do, and this is one of the few times and places in the world where you can do such a thing and not get killed for it.
Next time you’re driving, just take in everything you can see around you – those are the places you can put a sign and it’ll get read. the harder it is to reach, the longer it’ll stay up, and with urban interstates clocking some 200,000 cars per day and more, that can mean a hell of a lot of people.
Well I guess there are no takers of these rolls of paper from my post @100… I thought sure there would be some pup who could them for making signs for posting impeachbush or some other worth while messages to the masses :>(
I keep looking for good one-liners, e.g.: “If McCain wants a victory in Iraq, he should run for president of Iraq.”
don’t give up yet, nahant.. the threads are open for comments 24 hours and lots of the pups are in bed for work tomorrow.
Thanks to you all for a wonderful thread!
Thank you, Teddy.
Great guest!
I print up blogposts that I think should be read and spread them around town by inserting them in real estate magazines or free newspapers. Sometimes I leave them in waiting rooms areas or laundromats anywhere people are sitting around and need something to read. It’s a little thing but every little bit helps.
As I stroll through bookstores, I turn all the wingnut welfare tomes face-in. As I stroll through bookstores, I turn all the wingnut welfare tomes face-in.
I don’t get a weird thrill by doing that. I just can’t stand browsing through a book with Ann Coulter looking at me. I’ve seen *cough* less polite gestures, like Tim Russert wearing magic marker beards and horns. Of course, I went through lib school hell, so defacing books is out of the question for me. But it does give me vicarious thrill.
Oh, sorry I missed this session! TSF, great minds category: I, too, visit bookstores and turn in and cover up right wing books. I can’t stand their lying little faces smirking from their glossy covers.
Boston (just returned from there) is a hot bed of the bush bash market. Lots of WTF? bumper stickers, magnets, and National Embarrassmints for sale.
I feel privileged to view firsthand the fine work of the freeway blogger. Thanks Scarlet!
I dare say our “leaders” think of the troops that way.
:( They’ve made litter of our Constitution, that’s for sure.